# Genre tag field updating but updates not displayed
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-tag-field-updating-but-updates-not-displayed/47203
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 1, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-tag-field-updating-but-updates-not-displayed/47203 "2019-12-01T09:13:18Z")
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/genre-tag-field-updating-but-updates-not-displayed/47203/10 "2019-12-01T14:01:41Z")
`` is OK, I think.
Now the last thing I could think of: have you got more than 1 complete tag in the file. (Although then the display in MP3tag should be consistent and show only the data from one tag)
You could test this for one file:
Select it
Select "Cut tag" from the file list context menu
Check if the file now displays not data in the tag fields. If this is the case, then you have only 1 tag. If you still see data and perhaps even the old one, then there was one tag stacked on top of the other.
You can now choose whether you want to keep this data or delete the tag and paste the one that you have in the clipboard.
And then there is the possibility that the files got damaged somewhere which you could check the ujtilities linked in this thread:
> [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633):
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> It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is …
And why all this trouble? Because I can write GENRE fields without any problems
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